Dilling language
Dilling (also Delen, Warkimbe; autonym: Warki) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 12,000 people in the town of Dilling and surrounding hills, including Kudur. Ethnologue reports that Dilling is moribund, with only older adults speaking the language and not using it with their children. All speakers also use Sudanese Arabic. The Dilling call themselves Warki, while the Dilling speakers of Kudur call themselves Kwashe. Another ethnic minority that speak Dilling are the Debri people, an ethnic group of several thousand people from South Kordofan in Sudan
Dilling | |
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Warki | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | Nuba Hills |
Ethnicity | 92,000 Dilling (2024) |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2022) |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Writing system | Latin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dil |
Glottolog | dill1242 |
ELP | Dilling |
Dilling is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
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